A Night to Remember

As hack murder mystery novelist Jeff Troy wants instead to write a Greenwich Village based love story, his wife, Nancy Troy, finds a characterful i.e. run down Greenwich Village basement apartment as their new abode so that they can experience life in the setting in its full glory. There are odd enough happenings at the apartment on the day they move in including Anne Stafford, an old friend of Nancy's who coincidentally also lives in the building, not seemingly happy to see her, and Jeff eventually recognizing their exact unit as a former speakeasy he used to frequent, but those odd happenings are topped by Nancy secretly overhearing a conversation of a man they don't know talking about meeting someone later in their exact apartment unit, and in the morning the police being alerted to what ends up being a murdered dead body in their unit's back yard. Jeff and Nancy become enmeshed in the murder investigation often against their want, with Jeff even considered a prime suspect, leading to Jeff reimagining his next novel as this true life murder mystery. But their first priority becomes to protect the other as their loved one as they may be the murderer's next target if they get too close to the truth.